Olga LaPlante

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Lincoln Dome

Here is a simple way to create a meaningful podcast, that you can use immediately with your community, if you publish it online.

Check out this water conservation site that offers dozens of tips on how to save water. Some of them will definitely apply to you and your area. Find 3 tips you like most or find most appropriate. (Remember that change starts with you!).

Then quickly make a search to find pictures/photos or use your own original work to illustrate your message.

Open GarageBand (if you have it!), and record your wise tips, using a Male or a Female Voice Track. Once you recorded your voice (narration), add some background music or a jingle to make your recording more expressive. This article may be helpful. Also, don’t forget to use your own Learning Center on your MLTI computers.

Bring in your pictures, to create a video podcast. Time them to transition from one to another in sinc with your narration.

Helpful Tip: Make sure that you don’t leave gaps between pictures. Pictures are easily “stretched” to take up all the room available.

Finally, show/play your podcast to a colleague to make an impression. Share it using iTunes, or send it as a file to your desktop. Enjoy your learning as you are helping raise awareness of water-wasting habits in your community!

Post it to your Edline account as a file or an assignment. (For Westbrook Teachers only).

I just discovered this wonderful visualization - if you were looking for something this powerful, you will be happy!

Numbers don’t represent much anyway; hence the stereotype of an accountant or other financial worker - ruthless and desensitized by simple dealing with numbers only.

Now with this view on statistics, they are not so dry after all. And can be very powerful. I guess that explains why we use charts, or graphs, rather than a table view of data.

Well, enjoy the journey around this site, and maybe you and your students can work on similar projects, bringing numbers of life to life.

Running the Numbers